About Barry D. Ritchey, II

Barry is a SaaS Consultant and Small-business owner and a Digital marketing subject matter expert. He was integral in launching in-house digital media agencies for three of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers and he is the Former Senior Product Manager and Vice President of Operations for multiple major marketing automation software companies and exchanges.

he has purchased and optimized the digital media with multi-million dollar budgets for some of the biggest brands in the world; including notable executions for Google Maps, Reebok, Ashley Furniture, Walmart, and hundreds of others.

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About The Massive Adoption Conference

Massive Adoption is a one-of-a kind event for many reasons. It’s a blockchain and digital asset event that will be attended by more than 2000 people, most of whom have never been to an event in our industry before, in a place (Memphis, TN) that’s never held a large blockchain and DA event. The goal of the gathering is to introduce our attendees to real world experiences and stories of use cases in our industry. We don’t do panels, fire side chats or interviews. Our speakers interact with our audience through TEDx style talks (short keynotes); the deployment of real world working wallets, coins, NFTs, dApps and hand-on sessions and workshops.

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In this podcast interview, Rob McNealy once again interviews Calvin Weight, the CEO of Coinbook.com. They discussed Coinbook’s first six months of growth and the world of crypto.

About Calvin Weight

Calvin Weight is the CEO of Coinbook. Prior to starting the company, Calvin studied at Brigham Young University in International Business Finance and then completed his Master’s Degree in Finance at the University of Utah. He has worked as a Financial Analyst for many years, but has been involved in markets and trading for even longer. He has traded in Foreign Exchange markets, the stock market, options and futures markets, as well as the Cryptocurrency markets. He was introduced to bitcoin in 2012 and survived the MtGOX bankruptcy, the Cryptsy bankruptcy, and most of the major industry drama over the years. Calvin saw first hand the challenges and problems that individuals face in the crypto industry and decided to create an exchange to solve those problems.

Coinbook is a US-based Crypto Exchange. They went live on Oct 31, 2018, the 10 year anniversary of the bitcoin whitepaper. The problems that Coinbook is solving are making the bitcoin buying experience safe and easy. By creating an account with Coinbook you interact with a simple interface that makes buying bitcoin for a new user very intuitive and understandable. We are going to add coins that don’t currently trade for US Dollars so we will bring variety to the space. You’ll also earn achievements and get rewarded for trading and doing simple things on the platform. Some achievements will result in money or prizes so don’t forget to add your t-shirt size to your profile.

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In this podcast, Rob McNealy interviews Rahul Sood, the CEO and Co-Founder of Unikrn, a global esports, gaming and entertainment platform built on cutting-edge blockchain technologies. Unikrn is backed by Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, Liz Murdoch, Shari Redstone, and many others.

About Rahul Sood

Prior to Unikrn, Sood launched Microsoft Ventures and was involved in a number of other startups, including Vrvana (which recently sold to Apple Computers). A serial entrepreneur, Sood spent 18 years in multiple startups prior to joining Microsoft, including his start as founder
of luxury and gaming computer manufacturer VoodooPC, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in the fall of 2006.

Sood is a co-founder of Malta based Palladium, a joint Venture with Bittrex. Palladium is a European Tokenized Security Exchange and Blockchain Banking Platform that aims to launch sometime in early 2019. He also sits on the board of advisors for Razer, a company that is widely known for taking over where Voodoo left off.

In his spare time, Sood enjoys wakesurfing & wakeboarding, paddleboarding, cycling, racing cars and spending time with his family. He was born in Calgary and now lives in Seattle. You can
find him on Twitter @rahulsood. You can find Unikrn on Twitter @unikrnco.

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In this podcast, Rob McNealy interviews Tron Black, the lead developer for Ravencoin.

About Tron Black

Tron Black is an entrepreneur and founder of two startups which both sold to publicly traded companies. Since 2013, Tron has been working in the crypto-currency space as a miner, developer, investor, and trader. He was one of the first four employees of t0 (tzero), and helped issue the first publicly traded SEC acknowledged parallel crypto-equity for Overstock.com and the world’s first crypto bond offering. He worked for ANX International, a Fintech company located in Hong Kong which runs a Bitcoin exchange, and offers Bitcoin Debit cards.

Tron is currently a Principal Developer for Medici Ventures which invests in a portfolio of companies including Factom, Bitt, Ripio, SettleMint, and Spera. Tron has given crypto-currencies to hundreds of people to help increase awareness of how value now moves as easily as e-mail. He’s written articles about Bitcoin, Monero, Dash and Ravencoin, and been featured on several crypto-currency podcasts. He has been a panelist at an international blockchain conference and regularly gives talks on crypto-currency topics. Tron is currently an advisor to TZero, and the lead developer for Ravencoin which is both a crypto-currency, and a crypto-asset platform.

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About David Z. Morris

David Z. Morris is currently a writer for Breaker Magazine, a leading blockchain and cryptocurrency publication. He has been writing about crypto and technology since 2013, for outlets including Fortune, The Atlantic, and Slate. He is a lifelong outdoorsman, an Eagle Scout, a graduate of the Rayado backcountry training program, and a former backcountry guide at Philmont, the Boy Scouts’ largest National High Adventure Base. He holds a PhD in Media and Technology Studies from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in English from the University of Texas. You can find more of David’s work at DavidZMorris.com.

About the Show

The Rob McNealy Program is a podcast dedicated to providing authoritative, lively, and sometimes controversial guests and opinions across the spanning the topics of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, startups, small business, economics, and politics.